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We're making some in a bit. Anyone else make these every holiday season? We just spent 1/2 hour at my mom's looking for the cookie press. We found 2(!!) regular ones before we finally tracked down the electric one. Dang, my mom has a lot of stuff! And I bought some Wilton's icing at ShopKo. YUM YUM. Just reminds me of my childhood so much.
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Oh Tina, I make these every year and love them! My recipe uses cream cheese in them and I have a gun-type cookie press. I used my mom's ancient one for years until it finally started to rust. I always make gazillions of trees and use 10 different types and colors of sprinkles. They definitely help extend the childhood memories to the next generation - my kids love them too. And there is something quite satisfying about making hundreds of cookies in a very short amount of time!!
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Oh Tina, I make these every year and love them! My recipe uses cream cheese in them and I have a gun-type cookie press. I used my mom's ancient one for years until it finally started to rust. I always make gazillions of trees and use 10 different types and colors of sprinkles. They definitely help extend the childhood memories to the next generation - my kids love them too. And there is something quite satisfying about making hundreds of cookies in a very short amount of time!!
Wow - are we sisters or something???
I was going to say almost the same thing.......I use cream cheese in mine too and I used my mom's cookie press for years as well, until she bought me a new one the year before she passed away.
They really do bring back wonderful childhood memories!
I just made some for our cookie exchange at church 2 weeks ago. I made the
wreaths and the trees. The only thing I don't like is my hands and wrists hurt
after using my press. I also have my mom's in the original green box with the metal
plates.
We have been make press cookies since I can remember. We have even tried to buy the new ones since it would be easier on us but we have not found one we like. We keep going back to using my grandmother's ancient one. It for some reason makes the best cookies. We make christmas trees, wreaths and my all time favorite spritz snowflakes that are made with orange rind and cream cheese.
I was just thinking of those cookies the other day. I have not made them since my girls were little. They sound so good . I had my moms old press too. I need a new one. Any ideas on where to get a good one.
Lauren and I made some last night at 11! She found some Wilton's icing in what looks like a glue bottle DH had gotten for something and never used and just HAD to make Spritzes!
Took me about 30 minutes to get the battery powered press to work. Something to be said for the old-fashioned kind. BTW - took me all of 5 seconds to find my press - we have a ton of kitchen stuff, so much so that ALL electric items are in the garage, in their own floor to ceiling cabinet.
We make these every year also using a butter receipe. Each year, we pick a day and my mom, sister (sometimes my other sister comes from NYC too), and I spend a day making cookies. My nephews are in charge of decorating the cookies before we bake them. Of course, every year the dough sticks inside the electric cookie press and my sister vows that we will not make these cookies ever again. But each year we pull out the recipe and the cookie press and make them again!! LOL
1 cup butter
8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
I soften the butter and cream cheese a little first, mix those together, add the sugar and vanilla, then the flour last. Press through the cookie press. Decorate with different color sprinkles or colored sugars. Bake 7-10 minutes at 400 degrees. ( You can also add a little food coloring to the dough to make green trees, etc.)
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And I bought some Wilton's icing at ShopKo. YUM YUM. Just reminds me of my childhood so much.
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I always make gazillions of trees and use 10 different types and colors of sprinkles. They definitely help extend the childhood memories to the next generation - my kids love them too. And there is something quite satisfying about making hundreds of cookies in a very short amount of time!!
I'm addicted to buying different attachments for my cookie press
I've been jingled by karadisney.
. I had my moms old press too. I need a new one. Any ideas on where to get a good one.
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